Awake nasal fibre optic intubation — a simple manoeuvre for easy navigation of the fiberscope through the nasopharynx

Nasal fiberoptic intubation: what“red out”?

“…Nasotracheal intubation is an important skill that is unfortunately less practiced nowadays. We were therefore delighted to read about the technique by Rewari et al 1 on facilitating fiberoptic nasotracheal intubation. We herein suggest a way to bypass the problem of “being in the dark” (referred to as “Red out” by the authors) when passing the fiberscope through the nasopharynx.…”